Cataloguechats, services, clubs, neighbourhoods
Every project is its own chat with its own rules pinned, all in Russian. Go where it's useful to you: change money, find work, play mafia or get to the beach. It all runs on the same people.
The core community, useful chats, clubs and neighbourhoods
The ecosystem's main chat and the way into everything else. People introduce themselves here, look for partners and contractors, ask about visas, banks, housing and doctors, and hear about meetups before anyone else. Everything that grew into a format of its own lives in its own chat, but announcements still come here. The chat is in Russian.
The community's news channel, in Russian. Announcements of every format land here, along with talk recordings and longreads: guides to AI agents and prompt engineering, how-tos for expats (driving licences, TM-30, banks, visas), breakdowns of Thai news. If you read just one thing from the ecosystem, make it the channel.
An exchange that grew up inside the community and has been running since November 2023: we change roubles and USDT into Thai baht and pay out in cash delivered across Pattaya, by transfer to a Thai account or via an ATM anywhere in Thailand, and we help pay for tickets and purchases. The rate is updated daily — on obmen.itparty.club and in the channel, both in Russian. We work with people who come from the community, so we value our reputation.
The community's jobs and services noticeboard: vacancies and projects, finding contractors, services offered by members — developers, designers, marketers, photographers. One post per offer, no duplicates; the listing format is described in the pinned post.
The community's flea market: sell, buy, swap or rent out gadgets, a scooter, furniture or sports gear, find or offer housing. Sellers are community members, so deals are easier to strike than on anonymous sites. Listing rules are pinned.
The community's sports chat. Saturday volleyball on Pratamnak, running sessions in Jomtien, match screenings and FIFA tournaments all grew out of it. Today it's where people get a group together for any activity — from a morning run to a tournament. The schedule changes, so check the pinned post and the latest messages.
A creative chat: photographers and videographers look for models, models look for photographers, together they come up with shoots and share the results. It's also where people find a camera operator for an event and talk about locations. It started as the community's photo club in autumn 2023 and now has a life of its own.
The city mafia club, the ecosystem's most regular format. We play on Sundays at GrandDaddy.House, hosted by Sasha, 200฿ per evening. The club's site has the schedule, ratings and game reviews based on recordings of the games. Newcomers learn right at the table, and on your first visit you can just come and watch. Games, chat and site are in Russian.
A tabletop role-playing club. Game master Mikhail runs Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, including for people who have never played; alongside there's Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy, Kill Team, Warcry, games based on The Lord of the Rings and Aliens, and miniature painting workshops. Sessions several times a week; the GM announces the schedule. Games are run in Russian.
Evenings of ecstatic dance, meditation and somatic practices. The format is simple: a live DJ set, free movement, no talking on the dance floor and no alcohol. You don't need to know how to dance. Run by Artemida, who also takes care of the music at the community's DJ nights.
A local chat for expats, residents of and visitors to Bang Saray — a quiet fishing village half an hour south of Pattaya. People ask about housing and rentals, doctors, handymen and schools, recommend cafés and markets, look for rides into town and get together for fishing tournaments.
The neighbours' chat of the large Arcadia Beach Resort condominium on Pratamnak. People ask about rentals and the management company, look for handymen and movers, sort out shared matters around the grounds and share what's going on in the complex. The chat is run by the IT Party team — like the Bang Saray neighbourhood chat.
The neighbours' chat of the Arcadia Beach Continental condominium on Pratamnak — next door to Arcadia Beach Resort on the same hillside. People discuss rentals and the management company, repairs and handymen, parking, deliveries and everything about life in the complex. The chat is run by the IT Party team.
Join the main chat IT Party Pattaya and introduce yourself: who you are, what you do, how long you've been in Pattaya. There are no joining fees or application forms; the rules are pinned in the chat. The chat is in Russian.
There's one main rule, unchanged since 2023: don't get in other people's way and treat each other with respect. Every chat in the ecosystem has its own pinned post with the details — what you can post and what you can't; read it before your first message.
Not in the main chat — there are dedicated chats for that:
Partner announcements in the chat and the channel are by arrangement with
Anton — message him directly.
Message Anton: the topic, the format, how much time and how many people you need. Talks happen at the Saturday IT Brunches and at the EXPERT & DJ Party; new clubs get their own chats — that's how mafia, D&D and ecstatic dance came about.
Yes. The IT in the name is about where we came from, not an entry ticket: the chat has marketers, designers, entrepreneurs, freelancers and people who simply want their own crowd nearby. The whole thing, by the way, started when a marketer was told “you don't belong here”.
A +1 is welcome at any meetup: just give a heads-up in the chat if the format needs you to sign up (mafia, brunch, D&D). Whether you can bring children depends on the venue and the time; check with the organiser of that format in its chat.
“IT Party Pattaya” is the name of a specific community with a history going back to July 2023, not a generic label for any meetup of tech people in town. Copying our formats and texts is fine; using our name is not. People come because of a reputation we spent three years earning. Our announcements go out only in the channel and the ecosystem's chats.
Come along and bring your friends — that matters most. Contributions at regular formats (for example, 100฿ at the IT Brunch) go to the community fund. Our services support the ecosystem too: roubles and USDT to baht in Pattaya (site in Russian) and beach transfers. Partnerships and sponsorship are discussed one-to-one with Anton.
All announcements are in the IT Networking Pattaya channel, and pinned posts are mirrored in the main chat; both are in Russian. Regular formats keep their schedules in the club chats: mafia, D&D, ecstatic dance. There is no calendar on the site yet.
The easiest start is the main chat
Who you are, what you do, how long you've been in Pattaya. The rest takes care of itself. The chat is in Russian; English-speaking guests are welcome.
